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Patented Dec. 27, 1898.

J. S. TEMPLETON. CHENILLE AND CHENILLE FABRIC.

(Application filed. Dec. 20, 1897.)

(No Model.)

WITNE SEES cyw-a/ r /f6 M- UNITED STATES PATENT Cmcn.

JOHN STEWART TEMPLETON, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

CHENILLE AND CHENILLE FABRIC.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,748, dated December27, 1898.

Application filed December 20, 1897. Serial No. 662,539. (No specimens.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN STEWART TEM- PLETON, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Glasgow, Scotland, haveinvented certain Improvements in Chenille and Chenille Fabrics, of whichthe following is a specification.

My said invention relates to carpets or pile fabrics in the manufactureof which a chenille or fur thread or weft material is first formed by apreliminary weaving process and is subsequently employed as a weft inweaving a carpet or pile fabric; and my invention has for its object-sto improve the formation of the chenille material and to produce animproved carpet or pile fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an enlarged diagrammatic faceview of the woven chenille before being cut, and Fig. 2 is an enlargedsectional view of a fabric woven with the chenille weft produced.

In carrying out my invention the chenille material is formed to someextent in the wellknown way, differently-colored yarns being interwovenas wefts with fine holding-warps, which warps are arranged in sets ofsiX (or other suitable number) with spaces between the sets, the weftsbeing subsequently out along the middles of the spaces, thus forming thechenille material which is to be afterward used as a weft in weaving thecarpet fabric. The warps used in weaving the chenille material are, asis well known, shed by means of doup-heddles, as in gauzeweaving, and inconsequence hold the wefts of colored yarn firmly and cause them to turnup from the sides when the strips of chenille are separated by cuttingthe chenille fabric, as hereinbefore mentioned. By my invention thewarps to form the holder or' backbone of each strip of chenille materialare arranged with two sets of three threads placed at a small distanceapart, and a cord or comparatively thick warp-thread or combination ofthreads is placed between the two sets of threads on the side on whichthe weft-threads turn up when out. This cord is incorporated with eachstrip of chenille material by passing a weft-thread over it at suitableintervalsas, for example, at every sixth weftshot. The combination formsan improved chenille material of considerable substance of the improvedchenille material as formed in the preliminary weaving process, thedotted lines indicating where the wefts are to be cut to divide thefabric into separate strips. Colored yarns A are interwoven as weftswith holder or backbone warps B, of which for each strip of chenillematerial there are two sets of three each placed a little apart fromeach other. Of each set of three warp-threads B one is by the well-knowngauze-Weaving action made to cross the other two from side to sidealternately. Along the space between the backbone-warps B a'cord C isplaced, this cord passing over most of the wefts A, but being retainedby wefts being passed over it at suitable intervals. Instead of the cord0 being interwoven like a single warp-thread it may consist of two cordsor threads or combinations of threads, the wefts being made to crossover them alternately. The subsequent weaving process, in which thestrips of chenille material are used as wefts, completely secures thecord or cords 0 along with the backbone and middle parts of the coloredyarns in the body of the fabric. In consequence of the warps B beinggauze-woven they insure more completelythe turning up of the cut ends ofthe fur or chenillethreads and their embedding of the added warps C.

In weaving. fabrics with my improved chenille the backing commonlyemployed is not necessary.

The enlarged diagram Fig. 2 is a section of the woven fabric across thechenille wefts, the strong lines D showing the warps with which thechenille wefts are interwoven.

The improved carpet or pile fabric,lin effect, closely imitates theancient oriental oarpet, in which every tuft was knotted in by hand.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. Asa new article ofmanufacture,chenille composed of cut or chenille threads with a backbonecomposed of gauze-woven warps in two sets and intervening filling-warp,all woven together, substantially as described.

2. Asanew article ofinanilfacturga woven In testimony whereof i havesigned my fabric with chenille Wefts consisting of cut name to thisspecification in the presence of 01' chenille threads with a backboneconitwo subscribing witnesses.

posed of gauze-woven threads in two sets and JOHN STEWART TEMPLETON. 5intervening filling-thread, woven together to witnesses:

form chenille weft, all substantially as rle- EDMUND HUNT,

scribed. DAVID FERGUSON;

